mapman
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| Why Do Musicians Still Need Record Companies? If they want to get rich, they need good promoters and PR people. It all takes money to make money. Historically, thats what a major record company brings to the table beyond the nuts and bolts of producing records, CDs, tapes, whatever the physic... | |
| Importance of Soundstage/Imaging Real audiophiles don't use OHM or Bose. :^)Way too easy..... | |
| No Wilson Audio, D'Agastino, Lamm, YG at Ny show? "I wanted to see MAGICO but both dealers are to cheap to spring for a show."That's funny that they sell Magico yet are cheap.I guess it costs money to do business in NYC. Gotta watch that overhead.... | |
| VAC amps and Focal Grand Utopias at $195k a pair Could the variability of assessments be attributed to how the Focals do imaging?I have heard some Focal demos with extremely holographic imaging. I have found that if one is not tuned into that kind of imaging, everything you hear seems out of wha... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Charles,Yup, I'm with you 100% on all your points. | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers You want something fairly efficient and tube amp friendly. Audiokinesis is worth a look. Or how about a paiworl of large JBL horns?Or use separate powered subs and the choices are endless and probably more cost effective. | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th If I recall the pricing correctly Cathedral pricing comes in at a fraction of the cost of Volti Vitoras. I really liked the Volti's loooks though. I came in really wanting to like the sound similarly but I just recall the results not living up to ... | |
| Synergistic Research ART Basik, any opinions? "If we make observations that cannot be understood by our understanding, it is incumbent on science to do experiments and explanations of what we see happening."If one hopes to make the sale, then its up to that person to make the case somehow. Ot... | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th Jet,Honestly I have not heard teh Volti enough to say for certain. The one time I heard them at Capital audiofest a couple years back was brief and teh setup far from optimal. WHereas I spent a good half hour or so listening to the Cathedrals and ... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? I'm very tempted to try that amp with my Triangle Titus XS monitors. IF my wife would have it in her sunroom that is. It's a modern Victorian style house and she loves retro, so maybe. | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? JMCgrogan,I've never had a device with variable feedback.You indicated the changes affecting bass and detail.Could the detail be associated with more relative brightness? I notice with certain good quality headphones that tend towards less of a lo... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? Manley jumped their prices a lot all at once a while back.Are they worth the new prices? They seemed to be bargains for the old. | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? That Coincident definitely looks like a winner. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? "age 70+"SO weird but true.We're all "getting older too...". | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 If it were me, I would only run an amp like that designed for balanced input with a well matched balanced output device feeding it, like Atmasphere suggests.If you can establish that a proper balanced output device works as it should, I would agre... |